Writing by Ethar Abdulhaq (Zaman al-Wasl) Syrians’ refusal of the tyranny of the al-Assad family was not going to break or stop, but it gained momentum after the kidnapping of the boys who wrote the phrases against Bashar al-Assad on the walls of one of the schools in Daraa (40th School),...

Writing by Faris al-Rifai (Eqtsad)- In the balcony of his simple countryside home in Amasya north of Turkey, Syrian refugee Mohamed Hadid Shufan sits contemplating his plantings which he spent months nurturing in creative ways that it may make him forget the bitter months of siege where he...

A Syrian refugee was crowned "wine queen" in Germany, snatching the traditional annual honour title from local young women of wine-growing families. Twenty-six-year-old Ninorta Bahno was chosen by locals in the Mosel region to counter growing resentment against refugees in the country, which...

Reporting by Orwa al-Sousi (Eqtsad)- Hatay Province south of Turkey announced last Tuesday opening the center of Turkish teacher residence in Jumhuriyat street in Hatay for university degree-holding Syrians and resident in Hatay province. Taher Riju, manager of Syrian Association for Refugee...